Case Study: Amicus Therapeutics

Amicus Therapeutics focuses on gene therapy to develop treatments for patients living with rare metabolic diseases. Scientists at Amicus often need to create their own figures for internal and external communication, including important presentations communicating life changing therapies. Internally, clear graphics allow for easier team collaboration and with less opportunity for miscommunication. Over and above this, concise illustrations  help any audience understand complex treatment mechanisms. Team members at Amicus previously used other tools to create scientific visuals, often needing 10-15 minutes to design a single glycan, a common building block to represent their therapeutic interventions. Now with BioRender, that same glycan takes 2-3 minutes to create and is better looking and easier for others to understand!

Amicus Therapeutics scientists have increased their productivity with BioRender!

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AMICUS THERAPEUTICS FIGURES

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CHALLENGES EXPERIENCED BY AMICUS
• Miscommunications in multi-step protocols by simply using plain text and bullet points
• Keeping scientists engaged during presentations without missing critical information
• Designing complex glycan structures using PowerPoint or Adobe Illustrator
• Spending several frustrating hours creating low-quality figures

BIORENDER’S SOLUTIONS
✓ More efficient workflows and more collaboration with protocols and assays
✓ Clear visuals to present complex protocols
✓ Ready-to-use glycan structures and templates easy to share across company and customize
✓ High-quality illustrations in minutes

• Amicus Therapeutics scientists are creating figures 5X faster using BioRender
• 100% created more figures for science communication
• 100% say BioRender creates better quality figures

"BioRender improves how we describe protocols/assays and disease indications using graphics instead of bullet points in presentations. I believe this helps the audience gain a better, clearer understanding of the topic being addressed."

Osman Sheikh
Senior Research Investigator II

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AMICUS THERAPEUTICS USE CASES FOR BIORENDER
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Internal Communications
• Research Presentations
• Protocols & Workflows
• Brainstorming & White-boarding

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External Communications
• Publications
• Presentations for Talks and Lectures
• Slide Presentations

Amicus Therapeutics are using BioRender to create visuals with clear and
eye-catching designs!

"Everybody was looking at the figures and asking, How do you do that? BioRender is being recognized as a difference-maker and it is something that can and should be used to make difficult content easily understandable." 

Tobias Willer
Principal Investigator

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